The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-14
SONGS OF THE TIMES.
Hhsre Nearly All the Modern Popular Ballads
Come From,

Everybody loves lover" and
nearly everybody loves good song.
A few great men have been exceptions,
rs was General Grant. Did you ever
think, good reader, that out OF seven
notes are built all the songs that have
aver been sung? New songs by the
score are written every day in the
year, but the seven little notes, warp.
I'd, twisted, and tantalized, repeated
and worked in combination, over and
over, must furnish all the alleged mel
odies.
as there any such element as
originality in a song today" asked
Mail man OF a professor OF music.
Certainly. The old masters CLEAN
ed the field with great thoroughness,
but there are men toiling to-day and
doing splendid work with the seven
notes."
as there not more plagiarism than
originality IN the common run OF pc.
pular songs?"
eyes, | think there is. You have
heard Joe Emmett sing Love OF the
Shamrock it is musty and venera-
bile Church hymn revived and revamp-
ed. Byron's words:
Maid OF Athens, ere we part,
Give, o, give me back my heart,
were set to o tune which will outlive
the centuries. You hear the melody
now in When the Robins Nest Again
Krohn, a famous German song writer,
produced The Cavaliers Whisper
and copyrighted it. The copyright
having expired, along comes the actor,
w. j. Seaman, and incorporates it in
Peek. a boo I'm onto you,
see you hiding there.
Three years ago that old chestnutty
air took the country by storm. Scan
Ian, OF course, sings it in faster time
by making eight notes out OF quarter.
Twenty years ago, an English song
writer produced;
There was young man on the flying
trapeZe,
His movements wero graceful, the girls he
did please.
"In Adonis' Dxey revives The Fly
ing Trapeze' in It's English, You
Know But here is an instance OF
positive PROCLAMATION; Mendelssohn's
magnificent oratorio OF st. Paul has
a chorus entitled How lovely are the
Messengers The man who wrote Bill
lee Taylor revives the music OF that
in All on Account OF Eliza"
"What proportion OF the ballads OF
the day are thefts?"
cover half OF them. Asuper b funer-
al march by Chopin is now heard in
Somebody's Coming When the Dew
Drops FALL TO the Blue Bells OF
Scotland music you are requested to
Wait Till the Clouds Roll By The
chorus OF Americas Emblem is stol
sn from Ira ID. Sankey's Pull for the
Shore ClaribePs You and L is now
doing duty as Twinkle, Little Stars.
ain 1864 was in New York, and
going one night into the Tammany
Theatre, | heard Dan Bryant sing
Shoe Fly The refrain was:
Shoe fly, don't bodder me,
For belong to Company G..
an two weeks every street arab |
vas singing or whistling Shoe Fly:
feel, | feel, feel,
That's what my mother said;
The angels pouring lasses down
Upon dis darky's head.
1.-TWO months later the country was
ielirious over this flimsy ballad. Six
months later it was dead. From
1861 to 1865 When This Cruel War
$ over was sung in every home north
and south. 1t crossed the ocean and
became popular in England;
Dearest love. do you remember
When we last did meet;
How you told me that YOU loved me,
Kneeing at my feet?
"The melody into which those words
we're welded was written ten years be.
ore the war. A young music teacher
n Brooklyn visited Greenwood Gene.
cry one day, and upon his return jot-
ed down the notes to little song
which he entitled: Darling. Meet Me
n the Greenwood The modest fel-
ow, after writing the music and cho-
us, placed the manuscript in his desk
where it remained for seven years. In
LS61, while looking over some old pa
,ers, he found the Greenwood song,
md soon had it on the market as
Dearest Love Do You Remember
,r, When This Cruel War is over
Talk about successl II sold faster
han Shoe Fly and remained a ia
'orite for five years.
"What did tho composer realize out
u it,"
Every little, | am sorry to say. He
lied in Brooklyn, poor, about ten
ears ago. His name was Henry
fucker. He also wrote 'Genevieve'
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